Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

Lydia Michalitsianos is a board certified hypnotist and transformation coach who works with motivated individuals, such as athletes and business professionals, and entrepreneurs, to help them get out of their own way to achieving their goals, and living a life boldly and unapologetically. Lydia combines hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming, eye movement therapy, and many other healing tools to create internal healing as well as external transformation for her clients.    Find more about Lydia: Linked In Lydia Michalitsianos Build Yourself Inside      Awesome Women

Lea Berry is a certified Life and Career Coach for Millennials looking to make an impact in their ideal careers. Through Berry Coaching & Consulting, she helps her clients navigate the job market with a fresh and creative approach. An avid connector, she hosts workshops and group and individual coaching programs to help Millennials rise into leadership positions and find work that aligns with their passions.  Find out more about our guest:   Lea Berry   Linked In   Instagram   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org 

Genna Gold talks all things Yelp! Yelp is a top search directory website and app platform used by local businesses to market services and used by consumers to make buying decisions and post reviews. Genna gives actionable advice and insider tips about how women-owned service businesses can increase their search results and revenue by creating and filling out a free Yelp business page. Learn more and get all the details about Yelp for small businesses in this podcast.    Find more about Genna and Yelp: https://www.linkedin.com/in/genna-gold-18959260/ https://biz.yelp.com/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org 

Anne Berkeley is a naturopathic physician and expert in functional medicine. She has a passion for finding the root causes of illness using evidence-based natural medicine while guiding her patients on the path towards optimal health and wellness. Anne speaks about her background and training, starting her own practice, entrepreneurial challenges, balancing hormones, thyroid issues, chronic fatigue, and stress management. Tune in to learn about naturopathic medicine!   Find Anne:  Website LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Ingrid Vaicius is a certified wellness expert, health coach, and speaker. She helps people in public service and leadership positions make health and wellness a priority so that they can be effective and successful leaders. She is also the owner of bākt by Ingrid — a vegan, gluten-free, and refined sugar–free cookie company. Tune in to hear her tips to avoid burnout and why health and wellness is key to effective leadership and a Healthy. Happy. Balanced. YOU!  Find Ingrid: Her Website Facebook Instagram Twitter bākt by Ingrid Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org 

Tameka Young is the AWE DC co-chapter leader, a professional model, and founder of the National Association for Kidpreneurs. Tameka speaks about her modeling career, starting a national organization, and co-leading the DC AWE chapter. Her vision is to provide a space for kids in their parents to be able to create, network, and grow together. She tells some of the fascinating stories of kid business owners along with the challenges and rewards of starting a business. Join AWE DC on June 27th to connect with other women business owners and hear Tameka and Tee Wright speak about collaboration and supporting one another!   Find Tameka: Tameka Instagram Kidpreneur Website Kidpreneur Instagram  Kidpreneur Facebook Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Mari Millard is the owner of Two Maids & A Mop, a growing women-owned residential cleaning company servicing the DC metro area. Mari speaks about her background in sales intelligence and startups and how she transitioned into owning her own company. She dives into her client process, team training, non-toxic cleaning products, their partnership with the nonprofit Cleaning For A Reason, marketing and more! Find Mari: https://twomaidsalexandria.com/ https://twomaidsrockville.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/marimillard/ https://www.facebook.com/twomaidsdc/ https://www.facebook.com/TwoMaidsAlexandria/ https://www.facebook.com/twomaidsrockville/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org

Radiance Harris, Esq. is the founder and managing attorney of Radiance IP Law. Radiance worked at a major global law firm until she decided to start her own business three years ago to help established small business owners protect, leverage, and grow their brands with trademarks and copyright law. She talks in detail about her work process, strategy, intellectual property, contracts, and being an entrepreneur.  Find Radiance:  Radiance IP Law Instagram Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org

Lisa McLaughlin went from being a government contractor to a new mom to creating a successful product-based business in the last five years. Although her business has been doing well, she decided to close it. She's been amazed by the heartfelt responses and would like to continue the conversation. A lot is written about growing and scaling but not nearly enough is said about actively deciding to NOT continue a business. Find Lisa McLaughlin District Line Co. Facebook Twitter Instagram   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

Mary Sue Dahill is the founder of MSD Advisors, a small business technology company that creates and implements systems to help clients work smarter not harder in order to scale and grow your business. Mary talks about her challenging experience in corporate work environments and her rewarding path to entrepreneurship. She dives into her work process, marketing tips, and recommends her favorite CRM tools designed for client management, email marketing, and robust automation. Find Mary Sue Dahill: MSD Advisors LinkedIn Twitter Facebook   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

Sarah Fraser, radio and TV personality, is the host of the enormously popular Hey Frase Podcast. Sarah talks about her background growing up, co-hosting radio shows, why and how she started her own podcast and great tips to get started monetizing your podcast! Find Sarah:  http://heyfrase.com/ https://www.instagram.com/heyfrase/ https://twitter.com/heyfrase https://www.facebook.com/heyfrase/ https://www.youtube.com/user/heyfrase https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hey-frase-dc-podcast-featuring/id1064651383?mt=2 https://www.snapchat.com/add/heyfraseshow Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Masha Sharma is the co-founder & CTO of RealAtom, a modern, all-in-one loan management SaaS platform designed specifically for $3B commercial real estate lending industry. Masha speaks about her background in start-up companies, big data, entrepreneurship, tech tools, tips, and software for business. Find Masha:  https://realatom.com/ https://www.facebook.com/RealAtomCRE/ https://twitter.com/RealAtomMarket https://www.linkedin.com/company/realatom.com/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Chrissy Macken, the founder of Blueprintgreen Career Coaching, is the go-to coach for effectively building resiliency in stressful work environments and confidently reclaiming a purpose-driven career. Chrissy speaks about personal experiences and values that led her to follow her passion, create her business and fulfill her mission to disrupt toxic work cultures and provide actionable tools and strategies that create physically, mentally and emotionally healthier workplaces.  Feeling burned out in your career or workplace? Tune into this episode for inspiration to make a positive change. Go to Blueprintgreen Career Coaching's website to download their free guide with 22 strategies to reduce the most common types of work stress. Find Chrissy:  https://www.blueprintgreen.us/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrissy-macken/ https://www.facebook.com/blueprintgreen https://twitter.com/blueprintgreen https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueprintgreen/ https://www.yelp.com/biz/blueprintgreen-career-coaching-and-consultin

Kim Smith is the Founder and CEO of Keep It Movin (K.I.M.), a 501c3 nonprofit organization that empowers, motivates, and educates previously-incarcerated women while preventing recidivism. Kim speaks about the challenges that female inmates face upon reintegration into society. K.I.M. provides intervention programs and educational training that focus on mindset and attitude, life and communication skills, employability and housing, and available support and resources.  Find Kim: http://www.kimdmv.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-smith-53590a35/ https://www.facebook.com/KeepItMovinDMV/ https://twitter.com/KIMDMV https://www.instagram.com/preventingrecidivism/

Robin Gordon is the founder of Gordon & Co., a boutique tax and personal financial planning CPA firm that can help you achieve financial security. Robin speaks about her #1 best selling book on Amazon, “Living the Best Life You Can with the Money You Have: Create a Financial Plan That Works for You”, goals, budget, taxes and retirement opportunities for entrepreneurs. Robin is also starting an AWE chapter in Richmond, Virginia! Find Robin:  https://www.gordonandcocpas.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-gordon-cpa-pfs/ https://twitter.com/cpatalks https://www.instagram.com/rrssgordon/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Yasmine Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS to help students with incarcerated parents get scholarships and mentorship. She's also an inspirational speaker, model, and host of the podcast Millenial Minds. Yasmine speaks about her background growing up in the DC area, her personal story of how ScholarChips was created and grew with the support of mentors, founding members and the community, her modeling career, and more. You don't want to miss this uplifting podcast!  Find Yasmine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasmine-arrington-mdiv-66451220/ https://www.scholarchipsfund.org/ https://www.instagram.com/scholarchips/ https://www.facebook.com/yasmine.scholarchips https://millennialmindspodcast.com/ https://www.instagram.com/yazziespeaks_since2011/    

Joseph B. Sprung is the founder of JBS Financial, a full services accounting and investment services firm in NYC, the founder of 30 Second Pitch, an app that supports entrepreneurs and small business, and the founder of Bear Givers, a nonprofit serving hospitalized children and their families. Joseph speaks about his background growing up in Brooklyn, his first job in accounting, reasons why he began his own company, taking risks, failing, and giving it your all. He talks about overcoming fears, being successful, connecting and supporting each other in business, and an upcoming women entrepreneurship conference at the George Mason University School of Business. Find Joesph: jbsprung@jbsfinancial.com http://jbsfinancial.com/index.html https://www.facebook.com/josephbsprung/ https://www.30secondpitch.com/ https://www.facebook.com/your30secondpitch https://www.beargivers.org/ https://joeprobono.com/ http://nevertoolatetostartconference.com/  

Patricia Funegra is an entrepreneur, activist, and advocate. She founded La Cocina VA, to create opportunities for social and economic growth through feeding, educating, and empowering the minds of the community in the DC metropolitan area, specifically focusing on the Hispanic community. La Cocina is a workforce and small business development non-profit organization that provides vocational job training for the food service and hospitality industries, English language training and job placement for the unemployed as well as healthy meals to the hungry and underserved populations. Find Patricia: http://lacocinava.org/ https://www.facebook.com/LaCocinaVA https://www.linkedin.com/in/patyfunegra/ https://twitter.com/LaCocinaVA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWrvT3vl1-GguUrRaiNegUg https://www.instagram.com/lacocinava/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org    

Peggy Flaxman founded Slice Technology Solutions to provide technical support and training to individuals, families, and small businesses. Peggy speaks about her background in engineering, programming, customer support, and why she took the leap into entrepreneurship. She explains how she works with various clientele, gives expert tips about computer technology, and shares some challenges and rewards of running her own tech support business. Check out more awesome tech tips on her website blog! Find Peggy: http://www.slicetech.solutions/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/peggy-flaxman-slicetech/ https://www.facebook.com/slicetechsolutions/ https://twitter.com/SliceSolutions https://www.instagram.com/slicetechsolutions/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org  

Celeste Crutchfield is the owner of Kiskadee, a women's boutique shop that offers classic and trendy clothing, accessories, home goods, and gifts nestled in the heart of Del Ray. Celeste speaks about her background in the Air Force, her transition into entrepreneurship, marketing tips, and the challenges and rewards of owning your own retail business. Keep an eye out for some great upcoming events at Kiskadee!  Find Celeste: https://www.linkedin.com/in/celeste-crutchfield-27882b3/ http://www.kiskadeeshop.com/#say-hello https://www.facebook.com/kiskadeeshop/ https://www.instagram.com/kiskadee_shop/ https://twitter.com/kiskadee_shop Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org